Patient safety in developing countries: retrospective estimation of scale and nature of harm to patients in hospital (BMJ, 2012)

Summary

This retrospective medical record review of hospital admissions during 2005 in eight countries aimed to assess the frequency and nature of adverse events to patients in selected hospitals in developing or transitional economies. Authors conclude that unsafe patient care represents a serious and considerable danger to patients in the hospitals that were studied, and hence should be a high priority public health problem.